“So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.”

The President of the United States just said that people who don’t stand for the national anthem should be fired from their jobs.
You can be distracted by the fact that the employees in question here were professional athletes, so there’s some level of celebrity bullshit to the whole thing, but in essence that’s what he said.

That’s right. The President of the United States of America, the symbol freedom the world over, is suggesting retribution on one of its citizens for not displaying the appropriate amount of patriotism at a public gathering.

Yes. The President of the United States, head of the Republican Party (the self-anointed protectors of individual state’s, and citizen’s rights), strongly suggested that an employer enforce national loyalty by threatening a protestors livelihood.

This Mango Mussolini has already made a mockery of the Oval Office, he can’t be allowed to even remotely suggest introducing actual fascism as a guiding principal in the United States. This guy needs to go.